The hard drive on my Premiere failed. Does someone know where to find the image? thanks

There are currently no known ways to capture an image from them like for the older models. You must have a working drive and copy it to another drive. Other than that, check eBay or one of the forum sponsors for a pre-imaged upgrade drive.

There are currently no known ways to capture an image from them like for the older models. You must have a working drive and copy it to another drive. Other than that, check eBay or one of the forum sponsors for a pre-imaged upgrade drive.

There are currently no known ways to capture an image from them like for the older models. You must have a working drive and copy it to another drive. Other than that, check eBay or one of the forum sponsors for a pre-imaged upgrade drive.

ok thanks. I had the original 320gb drive but we recently moved and i have no idea where it is now. In a box somewhere. i'll see if i can get anything off the current 2tb drive.

Have you tried divorcing your slave drive from the master with WinMFS (link)?

I tried doing this and while it succeeded in WinMFS the remaining single drive didn't boot up, so perhaps there is something wrong with the master drive as well? However, when connected to to WinMFS I was able to (successfully?) backup the drive, kernel and bootpage but when I try to restore to a known good 40GB drive it says it's not large enough, even though this backup doesn't restore any of the recordings and is only 250MB large? Few questions...

1) Do I have to restore the backup to the same size hard drive?
2) Could the backups from WinMFS complete successfully but not be good?
3) Is the backup.tbk file the "image" of the drive or is that something else?

I tried doing this and while it succeeded in WinMFS the remaining single drive didn't boot up, so perhaps there is something wrong with the master drive as well? However, when connected to to WinMFS I was able to (successfully?) backup the drive, kernel and bootpage but when I try to restore to a known good 40GB drive it says it's not large enough, even though this backup doesn't restore any of the recordings and is only 250MB large? Few questions...

1) Do I have to restore the backup to the same size hard drive?
2) Could the backups from WinMFS complete successfully but not be good?
3) Is the backup.tbk file the "image" of the drive or is that something else?

Many thanks for the help!

Sounds like you're trying to restore to a WD or Seagate and the image came from a machine that left the factory with a Maxtor installed back when Maxtors had a slightly higher LBA number than other brands for the same nominal size.

Ordinarily I wouldn't recommend this, but you could try restoring with a smaller swap size specified and see if it fits just for test purposes.

Sounds like you're trying to restore to a WD or Seagate and the image came from a machine that left the factory with a Maxtor installed back when Maxtors had a slightly higher LBA number than other brands for the same nominal size.

Ordinarily I wouldn't recommend this, but you could try restoring with a smaller swap size specified and see if it fits just for test purposes.

No, it doesn't work. So is there a way to confirm that I at least have a valid image/backup?

Well I thought my original master drive was ok but it never boots up after divorcing from the slave drive so I figured it must be bad as well...although only the slave has tripped the SMART warning. However, when connecting it to WinMFS it seems to still recognize it as if it's ok. Below is the MSINFO on it for what it's worth...?

Well I thought my original master drive was ok but it never boots up after divorcing from the slave drive so I figured it must be bad as well...although only the slave has tripped the SMART warning. However, when connecting it to WinMFS it seems to still recognize it as if it's ok. Below is the MSINFO on it for what it's worth...?

I'm not sure what was wrong with the original config but I was able to restore your image to my original 160GB master drive. I did that before I had a chance to read your message here. Seems ok so far, crossing my fingers! Thanks again for all the help!

I'm not sure what was wrong with the original config but I was able to restore your image to my original 160GB master drive. I did that before I had a chance to read your message here. Seems ok so far, crossing my fingers! Thanks again for all the help!

So what we need now is to send you over to read the SATA adapter thread and then you can start looking for a deal on a 1TB drive.

and if you don't already have a free DropBox account, you can help both of us get extra free space.

Click my user name to email me for details.

I am mostly on a Mac, but I do have an old PC chaises that I have used to recover some of my old SVR-2000 systems with IC. I was going to get IC again, but now it is $40!!!! Used to be $20. You would think the download would be less, but no.

I am mostly on a Mac, but I do have an old PC chaises that I have used to recover some of my old SVR-2000 systems with IC. I was going to get IC again, but now it is $40!!!! Used to be $20. You would think the download would be less, but no.

I will email you to set up in the next day or two.

Thanks.

Post #14, if memory serves, of this thread, is a Sony 2000 (sorry, not 3000), image suitable for use with the MFS Live cd v1.4

One of these days when I get a 1TB drive temporarily available I'll take that 658 image, restore it with WinMFS, and then use MFS Live to make a .bak version of it.

Can I get a copy of a TCD540140 image as well? My mom's 40GB hard drive died. And I searched this thread so if it's here, I didn't find it.

Did you mean to write TCD540140 or TCD540040?

Any of the 540 images should work on any model 540, but the trick is having a hard drive big enough for the image since one from, say, a TCD540080 is not going to restore to a 40GB drive taken out of a TCD540040, even if it's a slightly fat Maxtor 40GB.

Best bang for your buck would be to find a good deal on a 1TB SATA drive and couple that with a Marvell or JMicron chipset based IDE/PATA to SATA adapter that will let you use a SATA drive with the 540's IDE/PATA controller.

There's a thread about adapters around here somewhere with more info on that approach.